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May 15, 2013 | Becker's Hospital Review
Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans has announced it will offer incentives for the use of the patient-centered medical home model in its Georgia Medicaid provider network.
WellCare will provide enhanced payments for PCMH recognition...
May 15, 2013 | Forbes
Primary care physicians generated $1.56 million in average net revenue in 2012 to their affiliated hospital compared to $1.4 million for specialists, according to a survey of more than 100 hospital chief financial officers by Merritt...
May 8, 2013 | Bankrate
The beloved family doctor who once coordinated your medical care, took late-night phone calls and guided you reassuringly through the health care maze largely disappeared about the time the iconic TV series "Marcus Welby, M.D." went off...
May 3, 2013 | Congressional Quarterly
The verdict is still out on whether a patient-centered medical home really can turn out to be a home, sweet home for patients and providers as well as achieve measurable cost savings and higher-quality health care.
But experts who are...
May 3, 2013 | MedPage Today
Building a strong foundation in primary care-based medical homes is vital to furthering delivery and payment reforms, health policy experts said here Friday.
"If you have strong primary care, you can improve health outcomes, you can lower...
May 3, 2013 | Health Affairs
“Medical home” has become a term of art within the current wave of health reform. It’s in the medical literature, on the internet and embedded in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
There is much debate over what “...
April 30, 2013 | News Medical
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) opened its 98th annual meeting with a keynote speech by Paul Grundy, MD, Global Director of Healthcare Transformation at IBM, urging adoption of a new system of...
April 30, 2013 | Journal of the American Medical Association
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Arvin Garg, MD, MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics at BUSM and pediatrician at BMC, served as the study's first author. Barry Zuckerman, MD, professor of pediatrics at BUSM and a pediatrician at BMC, and Brian Jack, MD, Chief...
April 24, 2013 | AAFP News
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A new study says small and solo primary care practices are more likely to achieve improvements in efficiency and quality of care, as well as cost savings, while transitioning to the patient-centered medical home if they...
April 16, 2013 | Becker's Hospital Review
Coordinated care delivery models have taken the healthcare industry by storm, with patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations becoming more popular with hospitals, health systems and large physician groups trying to...
April 12, 2013 | New York Times
Gov. John Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor, said, “We’re building something that’s never been built before.”
Some say America has been homogenized, a chain-store nation bereft of regional distinction in dialect or dinner. But now...
April 11, 2013 | Triangle Business Journal
Duke University Health System and Coventry Health Care of the Carolinas announced a health benefit plan for employers that will be powered primarily by Duke’s network of primary and specialty-care physicians.
The “Carelink-Duke Medical...
April 9, 2013
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Contact: Michelle Shaljian, michelle@pcpcc.net, 202-417-3911
WASHINGTON, DC (April 9, 2013) — The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative’s (PCPCC) Chief Operating Officer Amy Gibson, RN, MS, was...
April 1, 2013 | American Medical News
Washington If you're a resident of Howard County, Md., chances are fairly high that you have insurance, enjoy good health and have relatively easy access to a primary care physician. Take a short car ride to Baltimore, however, and the...
March 28, 2013 | Journal of General Internal Medicine
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There is growing evidence that even small and solo primary care practices can successfully transition to full Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) status when provided with support, including practice redesign, care managers, and...
March 27, 2013 | HealthDay
Adult diabetes patients who don't understand basic health information are less likely to continue taking newly prescribed antidepressants, a new study finds.
This is an important issue because depression in adults with diabetes is often...
March 20, 2013 | AAFP News
Last week, the Fifth Annual Medical Home Summit was held in Philadelphia, attracting more than 300 physicians, practice managers and other industry members to discuss the current state of practices moving to the patient-centered medical...
March 17, 2013 | The Post and Courier
Beginning with the death of his father from an avoidable hospital-acquired infection, David Goldhill launches an indictment of the U.S. health care system which, he shows in his book “Catastrophic Care,” is fraught with ineffective care,...
March 4, 2013 | HealthHub from Cleveland Clinic
What if you could see a thought bubble above every person’s head, telling you what they were thinking and feeling as you walked by?
In this thought-provoking video, The Cleveland Clinic created such a world. They wanted to explore what...
March 3, 2013 | Medical Home News
Amy Gibson is Chief Operating Officer for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) and has been working for over a decade to promote and improve access to medical homes. Prior to PCPCC, she worked for the Boys Town...
